Vatican official apologizes for taking down LGBTQ resource

A reference to New Ways Ministry, a U.S.-based group that advocates for greater acceptance of gays in the Catholic Church, has been restored on the Vatican website.

A Vatican official has apologized to a leading Catholic LGBTQ advocacy group for having yanked a reference to it from the Vatican website, saying he realized the move caused pain and that the Catholic Church does indeed want to include gays and hear from them.

The Vatican’s General Secretariat for the Synod of Bishops, which is organizing a two-year consultation of rank-and-file Catholics ahead of a 2023 meeting of bishops at the Vatican, restored the reference to New Ways Ministries on the website over the weekend.

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